by David Yamane | Nov 9, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Lara Smith, Liberal Gun Club, Sociology of Guns Seminar
With thanks to Rocket Armory for the slogan and visual, liberals own guns, too. This is a point I have made before. Approximately 20% of all gun owners in the United States — at least 12 million American adults — self-identify as liberal (compared to 36%...
by David Yamane | Oct 27, 2020 | Gun Culture, mental health, Michael Soldini, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, suicide, Walk the Talk America
Although the topic is grim — suicide — I am very excited to welcome to my Sociology of Guns seminar today two guests who have unique perspectives on the issue. Michael Sodini is founder and President of Walk the Talk America (WTTA), and Rob Pincus is a...
by David Yamane | Oct 22, 2020 | Claude Werner, Data, homicide, Michael Soldini, negative outcomes, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, suicide, Walk the Talk America
Although my scholarship and teaching on the sociology of guns highlights the non-criminological and epidemiological aspects of guns in society, I do not entirely ignore negative outcomes with guns. In my Sociology of Guns seminar, I typically allocate 2 or 3 of the...
by David Yamane | Oct 12, 2020 | Aqil Qadir, diversity, Gun Culture, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Tiffany Johnson
The topic of Module 7 of my Sociology of Guns seminar is “diversity in gun culture.” Scholars have done a woeful job of capturing this diversity — including the major axes of difference on which sociologists tend to focus such as gender, race, and sexuality, as well...
by David Yamane | Oct 11, 2020 | John Johnston, Personal Protection, Sociology of Guns Seminar
For the third consecutive year, John Johnston of Ballistic Radio and Citizens Defense Research guest lectured in my Sociology of Guns Seminar at Wake Forest University last week. Here I want to briefly summarize the ideas he shared with my students, while respecting...
by David Yamane | Sep 24, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Sociology of Guns Seminar
I have written previously about how survey research underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. The main sources of “false negatives” (people who own guns but tell survey researchers they do not) are (1) people who don’t want...
